CVE-2020-13956mediumCWE-20

CVE-2020-13956: medium-severity vulnerability in Apache HttpClient

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 9.0%
exploitation probability
9.0%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Apache HttpClient versions prior to version 4.5.13 and 5.0.3 can misinterpret malformed authority component in request URIs passed to the library as java.net.URI object and pick the wrong target host for request execution.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
n/a · Apache HttpClient
References
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